HYBRIDISM

n. Hib'riad-i2z'm. From vjSptc, wanton violence. The act of making or becoming hybrid. Syphilitic h. Of Verneuil, a condition in which the effects of syphilis and some other diseases [such as alcoholism, malarial diseases, neoplasms, varicose, ulcers, etc.) are combined. It is maintained that this combination produces affections that are unlike either of the diseases concerned, though most resembling syphilis, and also that the resulting affection is entirely unaffected by antisyphilitic treatment. P* Med. " Chron.," April, 1888, p. 47; Union med.," Dec. 17. 1887 (G).] [s. 368]